Margaret Thatcher dominates the 1980s but we are misremembering the decade, says TV presenter Dominic Sandbrook

Historian Dominic Sandbrook has argued that the 1980s would have been the same even if Margaret Thatcher had fallen under a bus.

The author, who has previously examined the 1960s in his book White Heat and the 1970s in books including State Of Emergency and Mad As Hell, has now turned his attention to the 1980s for a new documentary series.